Despite the growing dominance of the Android operating system, Apple continues to maintain a healthy lead in the smartphone handset space, according to a report from comScore on Tuesday. The report tracks industry data covering the last three months ...

Bloomberg made the best of the summer news doldrums, beating arch rival Reuters in web traffic in July. This marks the first time Bloomberg has done so since December 2010, a comScore representative confirmed to Mashable in an email. The researcher r...

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Apple has extended its lead as the top U.S. smartphone-maker, by grabbing another 3.5% of total market, according to ComScore's latest data. The Cupertino, Calif. giant captured a formidable 37.8% of the U.S. market during the three-month average per...

Even before Facebook started rolling out its smart search engine earlier this year, it may have been taking away some searches from Google. The number of searches done on search engines in the U.S. dropped by 3% in 2012, according to a new report fro...

Samsung is still the biggest mobile vendor in the U.S., and Apple has overtaken LG to grab second place, comScore's latest data shows. According to the October 2012 report, Samsung had a 26.3% share of the overall mobile market in the U.S., up 0.7% f...

Americans viewed an all-time high of 10.076 billion online video ads during the 31 days of May, according to comScore's latest numbers. Hulu was the highest contributor to the 11-figure metric, with more than 1.666 billion video ads delivered, while ...

TV is still the primary way that viewers watch TV programming, but digital is making inroads and the networks' investment in the web is paying off, according to a new study. comScore looked at the viewing habits of 10,000 people during a five-week pe...

Facebook's days of torrid growth in the U.S. appear to be behind it, according to one researcher. ComScore reports that Facebook U.S. audience grew 5% in April, to 158 million. That was down from a 24% jump in April 2011 and a 89% growth in 2010. Mea...

Android's share of the U.S. smartphone market topped 50% for the first time in February, according to comScore's MobiLens. The figures were a 17-point increase over February 2011. Apple's share for iOS for the month was 30.2%, which was up five point...

Reading this on an iPhone? You're more than twice as likely to be doing so via Wi-Fi than that guy with the Android phone next to you, according to a new study. The majority of Android users ditch Wi-Fi hotspots for mobile networks, whereas iPhone ow...

In what it's dubbing "March multi-screen madness," comScore is reporting that more than 20% of online viewings of the NCAA basketball tourney have occurred via a smartphone or tablet thus far. That figure is about double the share of views of non-spo...

Yahoo announced an aggressive slate of comedy programming at the beginning March that is scheduled to slowly roll out on the site's revamped video destination called Screen. That slate will supplement Yahoo’s forthcoming Tom Hanks online original ser...

For the first time, more than 100 million Americans have smartphones, according to a report by research firm comScore MobileLens. The smartphone category exceeded that figure in January, the report said, estimating that the exact number was 101.3 mil...

Are you reading this story on your phone via a link on Twitter, Facebook or some other social network? You're not alone. A new study by research firm comScore says 64.2 million U.S. citizens use their mobile devices for social networking, with more t...

Social platforms are still in their Precambrian era, with new services emerging and consolidating large audiences almost faster than they can be tracked. Meanwhile the social category as a whole is on the cusp of becoming the dominant form of online ...

Mashable's Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. Brands are often surprised to find that their fans on Facebook and the like aren't necessarily their intended target a...

Nielsen and comScore on Wednesday settled a lawsuit filed by the former over patents that Nielsen claimed comScore used without the company's consent. As part of the deal, Nielsen has acquired $19 million in comScore restricted common stock with neut...

Internet users in the United States watched more online videos in October than they ever have in a one-month time span. Those 184 million viewers consumed a record 42.6 billion videos, new comScore data reveals. That's 21.1 hours, or 1,268 minutes, p...

More than 72 million Americans accessed social networking sites or blogs via their mobile devices in August, a figure that represents a 37% jump from the same time last year, according to data compiled by comScore. The bottom line: Social networking ...

Apple and Google now control well over two-thirds of the U.S. smartphone market, comScore's latest report shows. Android's dominance over the U.S. smartphone market increased from 38.1% to 43.7%, and iOS's market share increased from 26.6% to 27.3% i...

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. The time users spend on Google+ and the traffic to the site appe...

Google and Apple continue to eat up more of the smartphone market, while RIM and Microsoft continue to lose ground. According to new data from comScore, 82.2 million people in the U.S. owned a smartphone as of July 2011, a full 10% increase from Apri...

About one-fifth of global Internet users visited Amazon's various websites during June, according to a report from comScore. Amazon led online retailers with 282.2 million visitors that month out of a total Internet audience of 1.4 billion, comScore ...

In a sign of growth for the technology, some 14 million people in the U.S. -- more than twice the population of Massachusetts -- used a QR code in June, according to a new report. Those people, representing 6.2% of the total mobile audience in the U....

The Nielsen Co., which is known for its TV ratings, will soon be offering a ratings service for Facebook campaigns as well. The Nielsen relationship will emphasize "gross ratings points" that multiplies the reach of an ad by the frequency that the au...

Google+ has hit 25 million visitors and — despite a recent contrary report — users are spending more time there as well, according to comScore. The social network, introduced on June 28, hit the 25 million visitors mark on July 24, says Andrew Lipsma...

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. Google+ has hit 20 million unique visitors, 60% of whom are 18 t...

It's another humiliating day for Research In Motion. The company's BlackBerry, which once owned 55% of the smartphone market, has now fallen to third place with less than a quarter share, according to comScore. To make matters worse, BlackBerry’s sha...

Google has become the first company ever to hit the 1 billion uniques landmark, according to comScore. In May, unique visitors to Google's websites rose 8.4% compared to May 2010. Microsoft's sites were number two with 905 million uniques, a 15% rise...

The Huffington Post has surpassed The New York Times in monthly uniques from the U.S., according to data from comScore and illustrated in a chart by Business Insider above. In May, The Huffington Post pulled in 36.6 million unique visitors from the U...

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